The ABC News story reported at the time: When U.S. officials announce the arrest of a notorious arms dealer and drug-runner this afternoon, the fact that his planes flew U.S. supply missions in Iraq will likely go unmentioned. In a January 2005 letter to Congress, then-Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz admitted the Defense Department “did conduct business with companies that, in turn, subcontracted work to second-tier providers who leased aircraft owned by companies associated with Mr. Bout.” At the time, Bout was already a wanted international fugitive. Intelligence officials had considered Bout one of the greatest threats to U.S. interests, in the same league as al Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden. Interpol had issued a warrant for his arrest; the United Nations Security Council had restricted his travel. But that didn’t stop U.S. government contractors from paying Bout-controlled firms roughly $60 million to fly supplies into Iraq in support of the U.S. war effort, according to a book released last year by two reporters who investigated Bout. And it didn’t prevent the U.S. military from giving Bout’s pilots millions of dollars in free airplane fuel while they were flying U.S. supply flights. None of this should surprise anyone, given that our government has been corrupt for decades and the deep state does nothing if not for itself at the expense of We the People. Sources include: Politico.com ABCNews.go.com FoxNews.com"Notorious arms dealer" Viktor Bout, freed today in exchange for Brittney Griner, flew an estimated 1,000 supply missions for the US in the Iraq War pic.twitter.com/fUxeU1KvCc
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 8, 2022
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